Spent the *entire* day debugging one silly thing, which ended up being ... silly. Some days are like that, so be it. And now for a filter pass...

I had been slowly warming to Donald Trump, perhaps mostly since I cannot possibly vote for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, while secretly rooting for Ted Cruz; but this whole "I don't like Fox News so I'm not going to participate in the debate" episode has reset me back to zero. He seems to be proof, if any were needed, that the "average voter" doesn't seem qualified to vote.

In case you were wondering: What went wrong in Flint. Many things, seemingly. In the US we have come to take healthy running tap water for granted - despite the huge adoption of bottled water - but this episode shows how technically difficult it can be.

Of interest (to me): the rise and fall of the singular they. Long before it was fashionable, I began using "they" in user documentation, as an accompaniment to s/he; it seemed better than him or her. Or maybe it's just because I'm Dutch :)

Tim Bray: Vancouver Real Estate - the game of homes. "Let’s assume that buckets of overseas money are flowing into Vancouver. The conventional explanation — which I find believable — is that the local real-estate is being used mostly just like a bank account; a safer place to put money than under your mattress." The notion of stored value is so elusive.